An Early Spring?

In a year of little snow and unusually warm winter temperatures, spring seems to be ready to arrive in Clarksburg earlier than it has the past few years. Last October, startled by Clarksburg’s very early first snow of the winter, I thought we were going to have another long, snow-filled season, perhaps longer, colder, and [...]

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Spring Must be Near

Daffodil leaves poke through the snow, just four days ago. Now the snow that was on the ground is long gone, driven off by several days of rain, leaving the yard a marsh while rivers and creeks reach beyond their banks in places. Today there is still snow in the air, nearly indistinguishable from rain, [...]

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It’s Spring!

Lisa said it first, but I thought I should chime in as well. It’s Spring in Clarksburg, no matter what the calendar, the Old Farmer’s Almanac, and Punxsutawney Phil say. Crocuses were in bloom, no snow in sight, on 8 March, and robins hunt in the yard. The daffodils can’t be very far behind. Unfortunately [...]

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Spring In the Grass

The day is overcast now but the weather service promises that it will be clear and warm. The yard is speckled with bright color amidst the moss, bare ground, and the grass, already tall enough for another mowing. Bold yellow dandelion heads have popped up all around, while tiny blue or purple dots on low-growing [...]

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Spring rains

Sunday, as the day before, the river in the valley below was brown with dirt that used to be on some hill someplace upstream. Odd, fierce winds from the west burst across the patio, setting the wind chimes clanging and dashing the hummingbird feeder against the kitchen window. Now muddy cat prints across the back [...]

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Spring

Oh, give us pleasure in the flowers today; And give us not to think so far away As the uncertain harvest – Robert Frost, “A Prayer in Spring”

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